Tomorrow · Wednesday, 24 June 1 airing
08:30
BBC Two
S1 E2 · Tashkent to Samarkand
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Michael Portillo continues his railway tour through Uzbekistan on Tashkent's suburban electric railway to one of the most secretive pieces of Soviet Cold War engineering. From Tashkent, he picks up the high-speed train west to Samarkand and discovers how China's Belt and Road Initiative is re-establishing old Silk Road routes with new railway connections